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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Now that 24 hours have passed we have our winner!

A huge thanks to @[email protected] for suggesting this awesome idea!

A survival crafting game where the tech tree goes backwards. You start in a prepper hole with working water filtration, food sources, etc, and everything is nice. Then something breaks and maybe you fix it. Something else breaks and maybe you fix that. Three things break at once, and at least one of them is going to stay broken. Have to do something more primitive and time consuming.

Eventually, enough things break that it’s no longer sustainable and you die. Game ranks you based on how long you last.

I would also like to thank every person in the comments for making their wonderful suggestions! I've read through every single one of them and all of them are really good!

You can view the game's code at https://github.com/SamLeeway/project-196, which is currently empty at the time of writing this, but every day from now I will contribute code there.

The game currently does not have any name other than "Project 196", so I will probably host a poll when we have at least something playable.

When the game would be playable? Making games ain't easy so it's pretty hard to estimate. I would say in around a week or so I should have a rough prototype if things go right.

Update

Didn't really have much time to work on this this week, so my week estimate is going out of the window. I will not estimate anymore. But I am still working on things, so game will happen. :)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm thinking an RPG Maker style game. You play as Morpheus, the god of dreams. Each level is a different person's dream. When you arrive the dream is a nightmare fueled by past experiences and internal feelings. You have to journey through the dreamscape and find these factors and resolve them to heal the psyche of the dreamer and turn the nightmare into a good dream.

An example would be a dream where the dreamer is delivering a presentation in front of a classroom naked while the other kids and teacher make fun of them. As that scene plays out, you walk around the school and discover little tidbits about the dreamer. Some of these tidbits are external factors that led to the dream, like memories of people making the dreamer embarrassed for being themselves. You could resolve these by fighting and defeating them in the form of nightmare creatures. And some of the tidbits will be internal factors, like feelings of insecurity and defense mechanisms like reinforcing ideas, that give power to the twisted logic of the dream. These, you have to heal by pointing out the flawed logic and encouraging the dreamer to accept themselves. Once you do everything, you go back to the classroom and find the dreamer giving a TED talk to an enraptured and admiring crowd.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

a traffic engineering game where you have to design different cities as efficiently as possible to allow traffic to flow smoothly to and from various points. different goals can be met for different stages, like: connect zone a to zone b with maximum flow possible, cut pollution in zone c while keeping flow above a certain threshold, make traffic take so long that eventually people will abandon their cars in the middle of the road and start walking to their destination have crashes exist, and cause congestion because of gawkers have a setting for the shittiness of the drivers

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whatever it may be, add mayonnaise.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I love mayo, so I will definitely try to fit it in!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Detective game where you have to find plausible explenations for paranormal events

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tetris themed murder mystery

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Sir, we've found no traces of tetrominos near the body."

"My god, it's a perfect clear."

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Not a game. Just an API. Simulate a big world and just let it run. Allow others to make clients for the world in different styles, viewpoints, and work different mechanics. But those clients connect to a simulated world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Since I'll never make it and I'll probably forget.

So you start in a town with a fixed number of NPC's. How ever the game style is you begin a journey and face a steep incline in difficulty as you progress. When you die you respawn as another NPC in the town. Your original character continues on the same exact path from your first run but now you have to progress in parallel with your past self. If you alter your past selfs progression you take back control of your original character. If you die you respawn as another NPC and same rules apply to all other past selves.

Title: it takes a village.

[–] LambdaRX 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Asimetric RTS, one player is controlling whole faction, and is fighting against faction consisting of characters controlled by other players.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Please make a spiritual successor to Crimson Skies.

The arcadey air combat, the alternative history air piracy setting, and the gloriously over-the-top voice acting and scripting.

After spending many hours of my childhood playing that game it would make my soul sing to play something like that again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Develop a game about game developing, but make this one good unlike all the others

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that game is called Godot - unless you're hardcore, then I recommend GCC.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A 3d rpg and the story should be a nobles life that has to get to know his country because his father said so. Then you can decide if you wanna help your underlings or make their lives suffer. The timeframe is up to you

[–] aBundleOfFerrets 7 points 1 year ago

Make sure your game includes a large amount of crypto-only micro transactions

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Neko Arc Miku <3

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A game where to play as a squirrel trying to cache food, and the whole time you have to avoid cars, hawks, and cats. Collect food, bury it, hide from rival who try to dig up your food and bury it elsewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"Save the Lemmyverse" - a game where you are a lemming and each level is one Lemmy community, with insider memes and problems unique to that community which you need to fix. It has dialogue-based sequences where you need to investigate what's wrong with the community, and then a random minigame to finish each level.

There are shops where you can spend upvotes to buy stuff.

There are collectible memes scattered around the game and you can post them to c/196 to gain upvote currency.
If you accidentally visit without posting anything new, you lose currency.

I could go on and on with this :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be a scientist and try to convince people about climate change before disaster destroys the world!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

A Steamboat Willie rhythm game where the animals make the music

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Developer skilled enough to make a prototype game in a week... Github account is only 3 weeks old

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A puzzle game with simple graphics where you are the reanimated corpse of some environmental activist who was killed by being thrown into a chemical vat and flushed to the river. The forest brings you back to life with the goal of murdering ~~billionaires~~ bad people who live in their mansions equiped with bunkers and panic rooms.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

tetris around a cube where you need to keep up with 4 separate tetris games at once and create a line along the entire circumstance for it to disappear

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Its a game where you ride a grocery cart down a hill and have to avoid obstacles. The hill is infinitely long and your score is based on how long you can go.

Maayyybe unlike the usual lanes type system of an infinite game, where you can only move left and right into locked positions, in this game you can move freely left and right. With sway, and hitboxes?

Small cast of characters where each one has abilities and perks. And because its my idea... I want them all to be cute girls who are delinquent and dirty, as opposed to the usual princesses. I'm thinking a style a bit like Splatoon.

[–] Secret300 5 points 1 year ago

awesome idea Survival crafting game

Something ain't adding up here

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